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Planning permission rejections due to protected species in England

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Dear Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council,

I'm writing to enquire about the following information in relation to your Local Planning Authority.

I would like to know:

• How many planning permission requests were received last year?
• How many planning permission requests were rejected last year?
• How many planning permission requests were rejected due to protected species?
• Of these, how many were rejected due to: badgers, bats, birds, dormice, newts, invertebrates, natterjack toads, otters, reptiles, water voles, white-clawed crayfish, or other?

Yours faithfully,

John Griffiths, Cardiff

Data Protection, Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council

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Ward, Jennie, Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Mr Griffiths,

 

Thank you for your email of 11th April 2022 where you requested
information about planning permissions which were rejected due to
protected species.

The information you requested is below.

 

• How many planning permission requests were received last year? 2336
planning applications were received in 2021.

 

• How many planning permission requests were rejected last year? 120

 

• How many planning permission requests were rejected due to protected
species? 3 (in each case there were additional refusal reasons which were
unrelated to ecology).

 

• Of these, how many were rejected due to: badgers, bats, birds, dormice,
newts, invertebrates, natterjack toads, otters, reptiles, water voles,
white-clawed crayfish, or other?  All 3 were related to bats.

 

 

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